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On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest, David Plotz, New York Times columnist Gail Collins, and Slate Group chairman Jacob Weisberg discuss what the Hobby Lobby case means for reproductive rights, whether Hillary Clinton's age will hurt her in 2016, and why Nate Silver is making Democrats sweat.

Here are some of the links and references mentioned during this week's show:

George Packer's 2013 New Yorker article about the politics of Silicon Valley argues that "the hottest tech start-ups are solving all the problems of being twenty years old, with cash on hand, because that’s who thinks them up."

Nate Silver relaunched FiveThirtyEightlast week. He also updated his predictions for the 2014 elections—he now thinks Republicans will take control of the Senate.

Paul Krugman has criticized the new site. Nate Silver responded with a post crunching the data about Krugman's mentions of Silver's work—at this rate, Silver says Krugman will write 425 more blog posts about FiveThirtyEight by the 2016 election.

In the New Republic, Leon Wieseltier writes that there's a cult of data journalism.

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Jacob chatters about the Danish political drama Borgen, and why Danish TV shows are so great.

Gail chatters about the movies Omar and Bethlehem. Both focus on life in the West Bank.

David chatters about the bizarre assortment of best-selling coloring books on Amazon, including one about Ted Cruz.

This week's credits were in the style of a waiter.

Topic ideas for next week? You can tweet suggestions, links, and questions to @SlateGabfest. The email address for the Political Gabfest is gabfest@slate.com. (Email may be quoted by name unless the writer stipulates otherwise.)